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Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob
This echos what you've said before: that you recognize that theft, in some cases, is inevitable, or at least wide-spread.
But surely you can agree that, if you want to get paid for your designs, you should be paid, and they should not be stolen?
Your situation does mirror that of much art, and the coping mechanisms artists are using to deal with theft. Whether or not they can recoup their losses is not the issue, though; if someone creates a unique work, it should be theirs to distribute, and dictate how it is distributed.
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living in an ideal world, yes, I agree that if work has value, it should be paid for. The company I work for is still, more than a year after the work was done, trying to get paid by the developer who hired us. Theft and graft is a sociological inevitability. We must market ourselves such that we earn a fair wage despite it.
Absolutely, I should be paid for my work, but I wouldn't suffer if you "stole" my designs and gave them away to low-income developers to re-use because they aren't my market in the first place and by taking from me you wouldn't actually be taking any money out of my pocket. Now, if you made a profit by distributing my stolen work, I will find and kill you.
